Ultrasonic calling during fear conditioning in the rat: no evidence for an audience effect

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 749-760

  Wöhr, Markus ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

22 kHz call; alarm call; communication; fear conditioning; freezing; rat; Rattus norvegicus; social behaviour; social buffering; ultrasonic vocalization; USV

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; FELID; RODENT; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 49149110093     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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